Ulsan Office of Education Promotes School Space Innovation Project 'Dadam'

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education is actively promoting the Dadam Project, a school space innovation initiative where students take the lead in creating new school spaces.

This year, five schools?Naehwang Elementary School, Suam Elementary School, Samsan Elementary School, Ilsan Middle School, and Samnam Middle School?are participating in the Dadam Project. The project budget is 2.4 billion KRW.

"Dadam" is the new name for the second phase of Ulsan's school space innovation project. It is a project that reconfigures school spaces into places of learning and life, centered around students as the future leaders of society, with the educational community working together.

Recently, the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education formed a team including Professor Yum Myunghee from Ulsan University’s Department of Architecture, P.P Y Hong Kyungsook, the CEO, education office officials, and facility managers to visit the participating schools. They listened to the opinions of the educational community and shared the purpose, significance, process, and four years of know-how of the project.

Going forward, a dedicated team consisting of students, faculty, parents, facilitators who are architectural experts, and designers will be formed to set goals, select school spaces, explore case studies, and engage in discussions and consultations to restructure learning spaces.

Ulsan Office of Education.

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education has been operating the school space innovation project for five years since 2019, supporting 29 schools with a construction budget of 6.2 billion KRW to date.

Ulsan Education Office’s school space innovation program, "Learning Nanjang - Flipping the Learning of Our Future School," won the Grand Prize in the School Awards category at the 2022/2023 UIA Korea Golden Cube Awards held last February.

In March, it was submitted as Korea’s representative program to an international competition that selects and awards excellent children’s architecture programs.

An official from the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education stated, “Through this project, we will actively support school members to rediscover their schools as places for future life and learning and to create a new school learning culture.”

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